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Journal of a second voyage for the discovery of a north-west passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific : performed in the years 1821-22-23, in His Majesty's ships Fury and Hecla, under the orders of Captain William Edward Parry : illustrated by numerous plates

by: Parry, William Edward, Sir, 1790-1855; Lyon, G. F. (George Francis), 1795-1832, ill; Finden, Edward Francis, 1791-1857, engraver; Melville, Robert Saunders Dundas, Viscount, 1771-1851, dedicatee

Publication date: 1824

Topics: Parry, William Edward, Sir, 1790-1855, Fury (Ship), Hecla (Ship), Natural history, Eskimos, Inuit

Publisher: London : John Murray

Collection: biodiversity

Contributor: Smithsonian Libraries

Language: English

Item Size: 456.5M

"Published by authority of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty."

"London: Printed by W. Clowes"--Verso of t.p

Includes music (p. 542)

"Vocabulary of Esquimaux words and sentences": p. [559]-571

Illustrations by George Francis Lyon, Captain of the "Hecla"; engraved by Edward Finden

Dedicated to Viscount Melville

"This work deals with the characteristics of the Eskimos and is a treatise on aboriginal life as welll as a narrative of scientific discoveries."--Hill coll, p. 464

Errata: p. [572]

citation/reference: UC San Diego. Hill Coll., no. 1312

UC San Diego. Hill Coll

SCNHRB copy (39088000490896) lacking one of the folding maps

SCNHRB copy stamped on verso of t.p.: Smithsonian Institution National Museum Jul 16 1910 [ms. acc. no.] 213178

SCNHRB copy bound in diced russia, gilt and blind rolls, title and decoration in gilt on spine, marbled edges and endpapers